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RE: Hitler’s obsession with composer Richard Wagner
It is also said that Hitler loved Wagner because his work was tied to Germanic folklore.
It is also said that Hitler loved Wagner because his work was tied to Germanic folklore.
Yes, it is often assumed that for example Der Ring des Nibelungen should be the main interest of the Nazis, but as far as I know there is not really historical evidence of this. Himmler was the one that cultivated the heathen - occult Nazism, but neither Hitler nor the other Nazi leaders approved much of that. But I am not entirely sure about Hitler's relationship with the folklore part...
Nietzsche on the other hand was the one that really understood the art of Wagner. Hitler was to petty bourgeois kitsch oriented to really understand the revolutionary grandness of Wagner's music.